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If you’re looking at Consumerist right now and thinking “something’s not the same,” well… you’re right. We’ve been busy making some tweaks — some you’ll see and some you won’t — but it’s essentially the same Consumerist.com before it got prettied up for the society ball. The biggest change is that, because of the updates you will have to reset your password using the e-mail address you originally used to sign up with. Rest assured that this is not a security issue; it’s just necessitated by the switch to the new platform.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be asking for more feedback and suggestions on possible new features for the site, so stay tuned.
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A fix to the RSS feed might be nice too. I just assumed that Consumerist was taking an extra long weekend or something until I actually loaded up the website a bit ago.
Ok nevermind I figured out on my own that the RSS feed address has changed. I’d be nice to get the pictures back into the feed though.
Please god, my kingdom for an edit button!
My kingdom, too.
Take ALL the kingdoms!
And I just noticed that my comments now show up without me having to refresh the page. That’s nice. I feel like consumerist has joined 2005, finally.
It would also be nice if the entire page didn’t have to reload. You know, like, comments load separately from articles? That would rock. And would be much more 2012.
What could possibli go wrong?
I just logged in to see if I can comment again and it tells me that I just registered and I will have to “audition” by leaving comments that must be checked first. WTF?
But, do we get an edit button? Please? I guess that’s something we could only dream about. Though I’m glad for one thing–I no longer have to zoom in to see the contents of this site (though that is more of an issue with Chrome Beta for Android on this Asus Transformer than anything.) Looks slightly nicer–like your way to post to Fark now–but an post-edit feature would have been super sweet.
Anyone know what to do if you can’t access the email address you originally signed up with Consumerist? My password has been reset, but sent to an email address that goes nowhere.
I actually had to sign up again because I can’t find any contact info for this issue.
Suggestions?
Doesn’t Tax Deductible only apply if you itemize? I think only about 23% of filings itemize. Big deal!
So….my avatar is gone and it won’t let me reload it because it doesn’t meet some unspecified criteria. The number of comments in this thread is showing 133, but I can only see two pages of them, for about a whopping 28 or so. Before upgrade, I could at least see 100 before clicking Next started to circle back around. Are we still fixing bugs?
This screener is a disgrace. She spills human ashes then laughs at the passenger struggling to collect them, what kind of animal does that? This is what we get when TSA hires high school dropouts with rap sheet, gives them a mall cop badge and allows them to harass innocent people with impunity.
Yet another case where a TSA screener disobeyed regulations, abused their position and caused harm to a passenger. This is the same agency that allows a known pedophile, Thomas Harkin, to stay on as a supervisor in Philadelphia.
TSA and the airlines refer to passengers as “fares” and have absolutely no regard for the feelings or welfare of the passenger. They regularly treat us with less respect than a freight shipment.
Every other occupation is accountable for their actions including police, medical personnel and teachers. If they exceed their authority or abuse their position, the victim can prosecute the individual and sue their employer.
There are laws to protect citizens from abuses by police for a reason and the same standards should be applied to TSA.
It is unacceptable to continue to allow these creeps to harass and humiliate people on a whim. The agent should be prosecuted for desecrating human remains and the agency sued for damages.
Anyone else having to reset your password multiple times? Thankfully, the breadcrumb trail from my e-mail has worked thus far.
Hopefully that situation can be fixed. Sorry for posting it here — the second paragraph of this story asks us to contact if we have problems but doesn’t specify just how to make this contact. There’s a space between “contact” and the subsequent comma, so perhaps a name/phrase/hyperlink went missing?